Glove



March 15, 1949.

C. P. COUPAS ET AL GLOVE ,Filed Feb. 16, 1946 INVENTORS I (flaw/es 600,005

Patented Mar. 15, 1949 GLOVE Charles P. Coupas, J ohnstown, and Edwin E. Schreivogl, Gloversville, N. Y.

Application February 16, 1946, Serial No. 648,124

7 Claims.

Our invention relates to gloves and particularly to leather gloves and to the method of cutting such gloves.

The present practice in cutting gloves is first to cut out the tranks or main portions of the gloves which form the coverings for the fronts and backs of the hands, including the fingers. The tranks are laid on the table and the next step is to fit up or cut out the thumbs which are to be stitched to the tranks. Sometimes there is enough material left in the skins from which the tranks have been cut to permit the thumbs also to be cut therefrom and sometimes the thumbs must be cut from another skin.

After the tranks have been cut and the thumbs matched therewith, the fourchettes are cut from smaller pieces of skin and matched with the tranks. The thumbs and fourchettes are called fitting, and the fitting must be matched with the trank, not only for shade of color, but also for texture or grain. Since different skins of the same color, not only vary in shade, but also in texture or grain, and variations in shade sometimes are found in different areas of the same skin, the matching of the fitting with the tranks is a difiicult and time-consuming task.

Therefore, the principal object of our invention is to provide an improved method of cutting leather gloves whereby the necessity of matching the fitting with the tranks is entirely eliminated,

thereby increasing production and reducing the cost of leather gloves. A further object is to provide a glove of such design that it requires appreciably less stitching, and in which the required stitching is largely continuous with a minimum of starts and stops.

We accomplish these objects by initially cutting all of the above mentioned portions of the glove from a single skin as an integral unit, such as shown in the drawing and described below.

The drawing is a plan view of a glove blank out according to our invention.

Referring to the drawing and assuming the skin to be viewed with the fiesh side up, the blank, as shown, is for a left hand glove. I is the trank which extends laterally from the edge 2 to the edge 3. 4 is the covering for the bank of the thumb and 5 and 6 are the coverings for the inside of the thumb when the blank is overfolded along the line 1. 8, 8, l and II are the coverings for the backs of the fingers, beginning with the index finger, and I2, I3, I 4 and I are the coverings for the fronts of the fingers. Attached to the side of the trank opposite the thumb as at 16 and I1. are the fourchettes l8 and I9 which are 2 attached to each other at spaced points such as 20, 2| and 22. Thus, the trank and the fitting for the glove comprise asingle integral unit.

By cutting the gloves in this way, there is only one piece to be handled which saves time for the maker and eliminates the task of fitting up and which heretofore had to be done before the glove went to the maker. All parts of the glove are of substantially uniform color shade and there is substantially less stitching on the thumbs. Furthermore, since the fourchettes are in only two pieces which are readily separable from the trank and from 'each other, there are fewer stops and starts in the stitching of gloves and more straight line stitching with fewer turns and twists than in the present types of gloves. All of which speeds up production.

What we claim is:

1. That step in the method of making a leather glove comprising hand, finger, and thumb covering portions, including fourchettes, which comprises initially cutting from a single skin all of said portions and all of said fourchettes connected together as an integral unit; whereby color and texture differentials in different portions of the finished glove and fitting up, are eliminated.

2. That step in the method of making a leather glove comprising hand, finger, and thumb covering portions, including fourchettes, which comprises initially cutting from a single skin all of said portions and all of said fourchettes to substantially finished size and shape and connected together as an integral unit; whereby color and texture variations in different portions of the finished glove, and fitting up, are eliminated.

3. That step in the method of making a leather glove comprising hand, finger, and thumb covering portions, including fourchettes, which comprises initially cutting from a single skin all of said portions and all of said fourchettes to substantially finished size and shape and connected together as an integral unit; said fourchettes being integrally connected to the balance of said unit at spaced intervals only and readily separable therefrom; whereby color and texture variations in different portions of the finished glove, and fitting up, are eliminated.

4. That step in the method of making a leather glove comprising hand, finger, and thumb covering portions, including fourchettes, which comprises initially cutting all of said portions and all of said fourchettes to substantially finished size and shape and connected together as an integral unit; said fourchettes being integrally connected to the balance of said unit and to each other at spaced intervals only; whereby said fourchettes may be readily separated from each other and from the balance of said unit, and color and texture variations in difierent portions of the finished glove, and fitting up, are eliminated.

5. A glove blank adapted to form a complete covering for the hand and comprising a trank portion, a thumb portion, and portions adapted to form all of the fourchettes of substantially finished size and shape connected together to form an integral unit; said fourchette-forming portions being integrally connected to said trank along one edge thereof at spaced intervals only, whereby said portions are readily separable therefrom, and variations in color and texture in different portions of the finished glove, and fitting up, are eliminated.

6. A glove blank adapted to formpa complete covering for the hand and comprising a trank portion, a thumb portion, and portions adapted to form all of the fourchettes of substantially finished size and shape connected together to form an integral unit; said fourchette-forming portions being integrally connected to each other at spaced intervals only and to said trank along one edge thereof at spaced intervals only, whereby said portions are readily separable from each other and from said trank, and variations in color and texture in different portions of the finished glove, and fitting up, are eliminated.

'7. A glove blank adapted to form a complete covering for the hand and comprising a trank portion, a thumb portion, and portions adapted to form all of the fourchettes of said glove; all of said portions being of substantially finished size and shape connected together to form an integral unit; the portions adapted to form said fourchettes being disposed in side by side relation and integrally connected to each other at spaced intervals only, and one of said fourchette-forming portions being integrally connected to said trank along one edge thereof at spaced intervals only; whereby said fourchette-forming portions are readily separable from each other and from said trank, and variations in color and texture in different portions of the finished glove, and fitting up, are eliminated.

CHARLES P. COUPAS. EDWIN E. SCHREIVOGL.

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